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March 21, 2025
Retrofitting the physical world is one thing but you have to retrofit the user. We start every project with a workshop where we ask the client “what does sustainability mean to you?” If we asked “what does regenerative architecture mean to you?” they’d probably say “Huh?” One of them, a nuclear physicist, said “I want nothing […]
March 20, 2025
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Deltek and Vectorworks, exploring the opportunities, challenges, and real-world applications of AI and new software tools for shaping the future of architecture and construction. Efficiency, workflow, new business, creativity, and sustainability are key concerns in the industry. AI and digital tools offer new ways to enhance project management, […]
March 14, 2025
Tarek Merlin, director and co-founder at Feix&Merlin reflects on the ever-changing nature of MIPIM, where chance encounters and meaningful conversations defined his experience. This year, he took to the stage to discuss inclusivity in real estate and the value of a queer lens in housing design. How are you enjoying MIPIM? The thing that surprises […]
March 14, 2025
Richard Roberts, managing & design director at Jason Bruges Studio, looks back on a successful MIPIM filled with valuable conversations and unexpected meetings — despite the daily downpours – and looks ahead to an exciting period with multiple art installations launching in the US and London. Designed for Hankook Tire’s headquarters in Pangyo, Seoul, by […]
March 10, 2025
Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio’s winning design for Times Square Arts’ annual Love & Design Competition reimagines public art as both a celebration of love and an ecological intervention. Photos Naho Kubota Before it became the Big Apple, New York was the Big Oyster. In fact, before New York was even New York, when Lenape tribes inhabited […]
March 7, 2025
Publica has spent 15 years reshaping public spaces through research-led methodologies, participatory planning and innovative urban policies. AT talks to Lucy Musgrave, Anna Mansfield, Gaia Crocella and Lou Elena Bouey about working with CHANGE (City Hub and Network for Gender Equity) to investigate – and ultimately improve – the experiences of women, girls and gender […]
March 6, 2025
AT talks to… Yẹmí Aládérun and Zoë Berman about the launch of Part W’s Built Barriers campaign. Photograph by Roca London. What are Built Barriers? Our city is littered with a lack of care and thought for the needs of women and girls. Everyday, women are forced to navigate spaces that weren’t designed with them […]
February 26, 2025
AT talks to… director at RCKa, Russell Curtis, about his practice’s modular concept that looks to use meanwhile sites for those looking for temporary housing. What inspired the initial concept for these modular homes? The issue of temporary accommodation is significant—there’s a huge amount of money being spent on it, around £1.6 billion a year. […]
February 25, 2025
In South London, a new co-working and wellness space paves the way for a high street’s regeneration and serves as an example of circular design principles in practice. Words Jason Sayer Photos Anton Gorlenko Sutton, South London, Zone 5. I grew up here and not long-ago Sutton High Street was full of the usual suspects: […]
February 24, 2025
A net zero residential development in northwest Cambridge by Alison Brooks Architects reimagines high-density, low-rise living through a cycle-centred community-focused model. Photos Hufton+Crow, Ben Hughes, Ben Luxmoore Sited at the threshold of the 150-hectare Eddington masterplan in northwest Cambridge, Rubicon by Alison Brooks Architects defines the area’s urban edge while also providing a seamless transition […]
February 20, 2025
Rob Beswick, founder and director of BD landscape architects, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the Urban Greening Factor. Here, he considers the main UGF principles and factor values. What is the Urban Green Factor (UGF) and why is it important? The Urban Greening Factor (UGF) is a tool for evaluating the quantity […]
February 18, 2025
Jerry Tate is on a mission to deliver projects that allow people living and working in crowded urban conditions to enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship with the natural world. Jerry Tate at Tate + Co’s studio at Stamford Works, a former printworks in Dalston, East London that has been converted into mixed use space including […]
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